My Quotations file.
I often find great quotations from folks email sigfiles, or just in my daily life. I’ve been saving these in a file and realized I should just go ahead and post them here. So here they are:
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“If God had meant us to be a spacefaring race,
He would have given us a moon” — Krafft Ehricke
“I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”
-General George Patton
“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don’t have brains enough to be honest.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“Any idiot can be complex, it takes real genius to be simple”
-Al Einstein
“I do not agree with what you have to say. but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”
-Voltaire
“The rocket boosters have been attached to the pig called IPv6″.
-Paul Vixie
“Our main goal for a long time [developing the V2] was to make it more dangerous to be in the target area than to be part of the test crew.”
-Wernher von Braun
“Imagination is more important than Knowledge”
-Al Einstein
“Luge strategy? Lie flat and try not to die.”
-Carmen Boyle (Olympic Luge Gold Medal winner – 1996)
“The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.”
-Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi
“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”
-Thomas Paine
“But this is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.”
Euripides – (480-406 B.C.) – Source: The Phoenician Women, 411-409 B.C.
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
-Howard Zinn
“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
-Walt Disney
“Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
-Woody Allen
“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”
- Rick Cook
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work.”
-Thomas Edison
“By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”
-Richard Dawkins
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
-Pablo Picasso
“Going to church does not make us Christians any more than stepping into our garage makes us a car.”
-Rev R. Neville
“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
-Alan Moore
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